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Recently our studies in Today’s Word have focused on the rabbinic techniques of halachah and haggadah. Paul uses these techniques in his letters. We should not be surprised. After all, Paul was trained as a Pharissaic rabbi. What surprises most people is that halachah was always considered binding on the audience (since it was the…
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Eliyahu Kitov relates the teaching of the famous sage, rabbi Akiva. Akiva’s insight bears directly on this duality resident in human beings and, in particular, with the ‘ezer kenegdo. “Some of our sages probe not only the words of the Torah, but each individual letter as well. The foremost exponent of this method was Rabbi…
In linguistic analysis, a particle is a minor part of speech, usually a short few letters added to a word. These few letters are normally not declinable. That means that they cannot be modified in order to show relationships within the language structure. Most words in language can be modified to show how they relate…
“I deserve better!” “They owe it to me!” “It’s my right!” The world of the Twenty-first Century is filled with demands of entitlement. From religious expression to bedroom privacy, the plurality of our world voices its insistence on personal and social rights. Not a day seems to go by without a news story about some…
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